Struggle Against Mourning Book

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction     1
Revisiting Defenses against Pain and Mourning     9
Obstacles to Individual Mourning     21
Forever Young     23
Lust for Love     47
Unresolved Mourning and Its Bearing on Society     69
Introduction     71
Romania and Its Unresolved Mourning     73
From Enactment to Mental Representation     89
Trauma, Resilience, and Creative Activity     107
On Being a Dead, Beloved Child     123
Obstacles to Mourning in an Age of Terror     157
Introduction     159
Who Am I? Trauma and Identity     161
The Role of the Analyst in the Analytic Cure during Times of Chronic Crises     177
Working with Sons and Daughters of Holocaust Survivors in the Shadow of Terror     199
Epilogue     211
References     219
Index     251
About the Author     263